The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont

• Jessamyn I. Perlmutter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jperlmutter16@hotmail.com (JIP); s.bordenstein@vanderbilt.edu (SRB)

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9789-4674

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• Sarah R. Bordenstein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6092-1950

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• Robert L. Unckless,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8586-7137

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• Daniel P. LePage,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Jason A. Metcalf,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United State of America

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• Tom Hill,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4661-6391

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• Julien Martinez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921

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• Francis M. Jiggins,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7470-8157

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• Seth R. Bordenstein

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jperlmutter16@hotmail.com (JIP); s.bordenstein@vanderbilt.edu (SRB)

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7346-0954

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